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• African Health News, Electronic Forums & Journals on the Internet
  • AF-AIDS Discussion Forum (HIV/AIDS eForums, HealthDev.org, Thailand and Ireland)
    An up-to-date archive of messages from the e-mail discussion forum on HIV/AIDS research and health policies in Africa. See below: SAFCO: Sida en Afrique du Centre et de l'Ouest -- and -- SAfAIDS: Southern Africa AIDS Information Dissemination Service
    
    
  • AFRO-NETS: African Networks for Health Research and Development (Sponsored by SATELLIFE, Watertown, Massachusetts)
    • A clearinghouse website for news, announcements, contact information, e-mail contributions, and online documents from newsletters on malaria, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, other diseases and health issues facing African populations. "An electronic conference for the 'African Networks for Health Research & Development'...established in 1997 to facilitate exchange of information..."
    • AfroNets News -- Archive (1997 to present) --Use this link for current news also!
      Warning: The main "News" section on this website provides access to information from 2002 or earlier.
      
    • AFRO-NETS related documents---current
    
    
  • African Census Analysis Project: "The African Household -- Virtual Conference": An Exploration of Census Data, November 21-24, 2001 (Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)
    This site offers an overall framework for discussion, as well as a set of papers and data...see the "Table of Contents" and "Inventory" at the bottom of the first page. "The African Census Analysis Project (ACAP) is a collaborative initiative between the University of Pennsylvania and African institutions specializing in demographic research and training." See also, the ACAP Homepage.
    
    
  • AIDS 2006: Daily voice, The. (Online) -- Toronto, Canada: AIDS 2006
    The official online newsletter for the XVI International AIDS Conference, 13-18 August 2006, Toronto.
    
    
  • AIDS Analysis Africa. (Online) -- Howard Place, South Africa: Whiteside and van Niftrik Publications, via Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division, University of KwaZulu-Natal; Bellville, South Africa: RedRibbon and Metropolitan AIDS Solutions, 1999-2001, 2004-
    A bi-monthly electronic newsletter on HIV/AIDS in Africa, with two archive locations: 1999-2001 -and- 2004 to present.
    
    
  • All Africa.Com: Health and Medicine News Summaries from Africa (AllAfrica Global Media, Washington, DC)
    Current news updates compiled from African newspapers and the Pan African News Agency (PANA) on health issues in Africa. See also: AIDS Headlines.
    Warning: articles older than 30 days are only available with a subscription.
    
    
  • Bioline International Publications: Abstracts, Full Texts for Selected Journals, and Subscriptions (Centre Referência Informação Ambiental, Brazil ; Electronic Publishing Trust for Development, UK)
    African medical, crop science, insect science, and/or general science journals from Africa and elsewhere are on offer at this site. There are also links to technical reports and newsletters. This program allows the reader to view abstracts for a number of titles without charge. However, to view online or received full texts, paid registration is required. There are journals from Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, and South Africa.
    
    
  • Electronic Networking for Health In Zimbabwe, 1994 (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
    
    
  • Equinet newsletter. (Online) -- Oxford, UK: Equity in Health in Southern Africa; via Fahamu, 2001-
    • Current news and information about organizational activities in the health sector of southern African countries; with online back issues since April 2001.
    • See main website for: Equity in Health in Southern Africa below.
    
    
  • Ethiopian journal of health development, The. -- Addis Ababa, Ethiopia : Department of Community Health, Addis Ababa University, 1984--
    Issues of this journal since 1995 are also available via African Journals OnLine, International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications, Oxford, UK....free abstracts and subscription-based full text document delivery service.
    
    
  • Health-L (Fondation du Présent, Geneva, Switzerland)
    The archives of an electronic forum on HIV/AIDS and other health-related issues affecting Zambia.
    
    
  • HIVAFRICA.ORG (The Lazarus Foundation, Oak Park, Illinois)
    A website offering current news about HIV/AIDS in African countries, statistical summaries for Africa in general and for individual countries and contact information about organizations working on HIV/AIDS, and related links.
    
    
  • IRIN PlusNews on HIV/AIDS in Africa (See United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs below.)
    
    
  • Journalists Against AIDS (JAAIDS) Nigeria (Lagos, Nigeria)
    • "JAAIDS Nigeria is a media-based non-governmental HIV/AIDS advocacy organisation in Nigeria." The website offers news bulletins, special reports, discussion fora, and related links on HIV/AIDS in Nigeria and West Africa.
    • AIDS in West Africa: Country by Country
      Country profiles (downloadable PDF) from the report prepared for the delegates of African Development Forum 2000 on HIV/AIDS (see below)
    
    
  • Malaria and infectious diseases in Africa = Paludisme et maladies infectieuses en Afrique. (Online), Archive 2000 -- Paris: SmithKline Beecham International Africa, 1997-2000.
    See also: the old site. The most recent issue and links to back issues and past conferences are available. "Malaria ... is the first French/English bilingual publication completely focused on malaria. The primary objective of this publication is to give African malariologists the opportunity to know each other, exchange views, find out who is doing what and to envisage the possibilities for south-south collaboration in research."
    
    
  • Rezo.Net sur le Sida (Paris, France)
    Un portail des actualités sélectionnées par un automate des médias autour du monde. Voir aussi: Rezo.Net sur l'Afrique.
    
    
  • SAFCO: Sida en Afrique du Centre et de l'Ouest (Fondation du Présent, Geneva, Switzerland)
    Les archives d'un forum électronique: 'C'est un forum public indépendant qui bénéficie du soutien du Programme commun des Nations Unies sur le VIH/SIDA et de ses partenaires nationaux et régionaux....en collaboration avec la Fondation du Présent.'
    
    
  • South African health review. (Online) -- Durban, South Africa: Health Systems Trust, 1995-
    An annual review of health policy developments in South Africa: the most recent issue and back issues -- all downloadable in HTML or PDF formats; plus order information.
    
    
  • United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs: IRIN PlusNews on HIV/AIDS in Africa (New York, USA; Geneva, Switzerland)
    "In partnership with UNAIDS and regional AIDS service organisations (ASOs), it offers access to the latest epidemiological data, information on government programmes, donor initiatives, local civil society activities, expert analysis, and crucially the voices of people directly affected by HIV and AIDS."
    
    

• Health Research -- US, African, and International Organizations
  
  • HIV/AIDS in Africa
    
    
  • African Council of AIDS Service Organizations = Conseil Africain des Organisations d'Action contre le SIDA (Dakar, Senegal)
    The website --in English or in French-- includes documents and news about conferences and other events. "Africaso was formed in 1991 out of the realization of the need for NGOs, commununity based organizations and people living with AIDS to develop a common platform on which they could articulate their concerns within Africa and the rest of the world, and from which they could also better coordinate their efforts."
    
    
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science: "Women in Higher Education and Science -- African Universities Responding to HIV/AIDS": Report from a workshop held 3-5 December 2001, Nairobi, Kenya (Washington, DC)
    
    
  • Amnesty International: VIH/Sida et droits de l'homme en milieu médical sénégalais: rapport d'un atelier tenu à Dakar, 18-19 juillet 2001. (avril 2003) Par Félix Atchadé et Ann Spencer, avec le concours de C. Becker, F.L. Dia, G. Engelberg, et O. Gaye. -- Dakar, Sénégal: Amnesty International-Section sénégalaise, 2003. --via Réseau Sénégalais "Droit, Ethique, Santé". En format PDF.
    
    
  • CCISD: Centre de coopération internationale en santé et développement (Québec, Canada)
    • Projets du CCISD sur la lutte contre le Sida en Afrique de l'Ouest; sur la santé des femmes au Burkina Faso; sur le Sida en Afrique francophone et dans les Grands Lacs, etc.
    • Publications publiées par le CCISD
    • CCISD Home Page in English
    
    
  • Centre de Recherche Cultures, Santé, Sociétés (Aix-en-Provence, France)
    • "L'équipe s'intéresse aux recherches sur l'interface entre biologie et culture, et plus précisément sur les questions relevant de la santé, de la maladie et de son traitement."
    • Lettre du CRECSS, La. (Online) Bulletin d'information bimestriel. -- Aix-en-Provence, France: CRECSS, 2005-
    • Publications du CRECSS
    
    
  • CADRE--Centre for AIDS Development, Research and Evaluation (Johannesburg, South Africa)
    • "CADRE is committed to fast-tracking appropriate and effective responses to HIV/AIDS through informing policy and developing coherent strategic models for interventions. CADRE works in sub-Saharan Africa with a primary focus on southern Africa."
    • CADRE Presentations and Publications: full text online documents:
      -- Reports on HIV/AIDS and Gender (2003) PDF format
      -- The Economic Impact of HIV/AIDS on South Africa and its Implications for Governance: A Literature Review (2000) PDF format
      -- HIV/AIDS, Economics and Governance in South Africa: A Bibliographic Review (2002) PDF format
      -- Children, HIV/AIDS and Communication in South Africa: A Literature Review (2002) PDF format
      -- Children, HIV/AIDS and Communication in South Africa: A Bibliographic Review (2002) PDF format
      
      -- Full list of publications
      -- Links on HIV/AIDS for South Africa, the rest of Africa and the world
    
    
  • CAPRISA--Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (Cape Town, South Africa)
    A multi-institutional collaboration involving the University of Kwazulu-Natal, University of Cape Town, National Institute of Communicable Diseases, University of the Western Cape, and Columbia University. See especially:
    -- Newsletters
    -- Publications (abstracts and full-text via institutional subscriptions)
    
    
  • Centre for the Study of Aids (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
    • CSA projects
    • Book reviews
    • "Aids Review" reports (PDF format)
    
    
  • Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health: Maternal-to-Child Transmission Plus Initiative (New York)
    • MTCT-Plus initiative is a program in several African countries and in Thailand. The web site features publicity and contact information, and a few downloadable clinical manuals. "...supports the provision of specialized care to HIV-infected women, their partners, and their children identified in pMTCT (prevention of mother-to-child transmission) programs." See especially:
    • MTCT-Plus Resources
    
    
  • Conferences and Fora on AIDS and Africa:
    -- Mangosteen Conference on HIV/AIDS 2007, Kololi, The Gambia, June 6-11, 2007 (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
    
    -- 4th SAHARA Conference on the Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS Research, April 29-May 2, 2007, Dakar, Sénégal. Co-sponsored by Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, TICH, and UNESCO.
    
    -- AIDS 2006: XVI International AIDS Conference, 13-18 August 2006, Toronto, Canada

    Search the Abstracts for Africa-related content.

    -- Global Summit on HIV/AIDS, Traditional Medicine & Indigenous Knowledge, Accra, Ghana, March 14-18, 2006 (Africa First, LLC, Saint Paul, Minnesota)

    The deadline for abstracts is October 31, 2005 ; and the full text papers due January 15, 2006.

    -- 3rd South African AIDS Conference, 5-8 June 2007, International Conference Centre, Durban, South Africa

    The site includes a link to information from the First and Second SA AIDS Conferences.

    -- 11th International Conference on People Living with HIV/AIDS, Kampala, Uganda, October 26-30, 2003 (Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
    -- UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS: : "Global Crisis--Global Action", June 25-27, 2001, New York
    -- African Development Forum: "AIDS: The Greatest Leadership Challenge," 22-26 October 2000, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (UN Economic Commission for Africa)

    General information on the conference, registration, pre-conference discussion list, etc. (See also, country profiles for ADF 2000 via JAAIDS Nigeria.)

    -- African Online Digital Library, Gallery: Collection de Charles Becker -- Actes, programmes, et résumés des congrés internationaux sur le VIH/SIDA et les MTS, 1984-2000 (MATRIX, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)
    Remarque: Tous les fichiers sont en format PDF.
    
    
    
  • CODESRIA -- Conseil pour le développement de la recherche en sciences sociales en Afrique = Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa: Selected "Social Sciences and HIV/AIDS" Papers, November 2002--January 2003. (Dakar, Senegal)
    
    
  • Conselho Nacional de Combate ao HIV/SIDA (CNCS) (Maputo, Mozambique)
    "CNCS é uma agência do governo que tem como tarefa coordenar, monitorar, avaliar e angariar financiamentos de toda a acção nacional de combate ao HIV-SIDA conforme preconizado no Plano Estatégico Nacional."
    
    
  • CRIPS, Ile-de-France: vihinternet.org -- Afrique et VIH-sida. Pôle Migrants/Afrique (Paris, France)
    Un portail d'information consacré au VIH/sida dans les pays africains, avec une revue de la presse (jusqu'au présent), la documentation (1996-2000)--y compris quelques bibliographies et l'épidémiologie pour chaque pays, et des adresses utiles.
    
    
  • Family Health International on Family Planning, HIV/AIDS & STDs (Arlington, Virginia)
    • FHI on HIV/AIDS (General)
      "The HIVNET International Program is sponsoring projects in eight countries, five in Africa (Senegal, Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, & Zimbabwe ), two in Asia (India, Thailand), and one in the Americas (Brazil). Various U.S. universities are subcontracted to implement these studies, with close collaboration of host country universities or research institutions."
    • Monitoring the AIDS Pandemic (MAP) Network Report, June 1998 (General)
    • "The Status and Trends of the HIV/AIDS Epidemics in Africa," December 1995 (A workshop report, co-sponsored by the AIDS Control and Prevention Project of FHI, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health & Human Rights--Harvard School of Public Health, & the U.S. Agency for International Development)
    • "The need for additional funds for family planning in Sub-Saharan Africa (1999)" (By B. Janowitz et al.; plus links to 3 other briefs.)
    • Excerpts from: Issues in the financing of family planning services in Sub-Saharan Africa. (By B. Janowitz et al.) -- Arlington, Virginia: FHI, 1999.
    
    
  • Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Reports on Health in Africa:
    -- "HIV/AIDS, Agriculture and Food Security in Mainland and Small Island Countries of Africa" (2002): presented at the 22nd FAO Regional Conference for Africa, Cairo, Egypt, 4-8 February 2002.
    -- FAO Focus: AIDS -- A Threat to Rural Africa (2000-2001)
    -- FAO News & Highlights: "Obsolete pesticides threaten communities in Ethiopia" (2001)
    -- AIDS and Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1996 (FAO-SDD)
    -- Effect of HIV/AIDS on Agricultural Production Systems in West Africa, 1996 (FAO-SDD)
    -- Impact of HIV/AIDS on rural households/communities--with special emphasis on Africa, 1997 (FAO/UN-Popin)
    
    
  • Foreign Policy in Focus: "HIV/AIDS in Africa: time to stop the killing fields," by Chinua Akukwe and Melvin Foote (April 2001) Policy brief ; vol. 6, no. 15. (Interhemispheric Resource Center, Albuquerque and Silver City, New Mexico ; Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, DC)
    See also, the home page of Foreign Policy in Focus.
    
    
  • Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (See below.)
    
    
  • Global Reproductive Health Forum: West Africa--HIV/AIDS Information (Harvard University School of Public Health, Cambridge, Massachusetts)
    A selection of links to reports from news agencies, UNAIDS, and other organizations (in HTML or PDF formats). See also: GRHF--West Africa Project.
    
    
  • HIV InSite Gateway to HIV and AIDS Knowledge: Sub-Saharan Africa (University of San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, California)
    A site with selected current news and full-text reports on country projects and trends, country profiles, plus: links to journal articles and web sites of organizations. See also the section on the Middle East & North Africa.
    
    
  • L'Institut de recherche pour le développement: Les Travaux de l'Orstom au Burkina Faso dans le domain du SIDA. (IRD - anciennement ORSTOM, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; Paris, France)
    A ce site, on peut trouver beaucoup d'informations, y compris plusieurs rapports (et une bibliographie) sur les travaux de l'IRD (ORSTOM) dans le domain du SIDA.
    
    
  • International Bureau of Education: International Clearinghouse on HIV/AIDS Education (UNESCO, Paris, France)
    This website (launched in 2002) includes current HIV/AIDS news reports, "country watch" reports -- including South Africa, selected country profiles, brief reports on national curriculum policies and practices in primary and secondary schools worldwide, and related links for health educators and community development activists.
    
    
  • International Organization for Migration -- HIV/AIDS in Africa (Geneva, Switzerland)
    • IOM Home Page
    • "Mobility and HIV/AIDS in southern Africa: a field study in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique" (September 2003). A joint publication of IOM and CARE International, in partnership with SIDA. PDF format.
    • << Mobilités internationales et VIH/SIDA en Algérie: étude qualitative--approche exploratoire de type ethno-sociologique >> (décembre 2003). Par l'OIM et le Ministère de la Santé, de la Population et de la Réforme Hospitalière du République Algérienne Démocratique et Populaire. Format PDF.
    • "Labour migration and HIV/AIDS in southern Africa" (September 2002) A publication of the IOM--Regional Office for Southern Africa. PDF format.
    
    
  • KIT: Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen = Royal Tropical Institute: Health Research in Africa and Elsewhere (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
    • Health--All areas of KIT research
    • HIV/AIDS
    • Malaria
    • KIT Home Page
    
    
  • Réseau africain de recherche sur le Sida: un cadre d'échanges et de collaboration en Afrique (Dakar, Sénégal; via Refer)
    Ce site comprend les renseignements essentiels sur le réseau. On peut aussi accéder à un catalogue des périodiques du centre d'information et de documentation.
    
    --Voir surtout: The HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa in a Historical Perspective. Edited by Philippe Denis & Charles Becker. -- Dakar, Sénégal: RARS, 2006. Electronic version of a book jointly published originally by Academia-Bruylant (Louvain-la-Neuve) and Karthala (Paris) in French.
    
    
  • SAfAIDS: Southern Africa AIDS Information Dissemination Service (Harare, Zimbabwe)
    • "Southern Africa AIDS Information Dissemination Service (SAfAIDS) is a subregional non-governmental organisation that was established in 1994. Its main purpose is to help strengthen capacity to address the socio-economic impact of AIDS and to promote HIV prevention in southern Africa. ... SAfAIDS' main role is promoting policy, research, planning and programme development around HIV/AIDS in the southern Africa region. It works with NGOs, PWAs, government bodies, international agencies, research institutes, media organisations, the private sector, labour and others to assist them to explore and implement responses to HIV/AIDS in a development context."
    • SAfAIDS Home Page
    
    
  • SAHARA--Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS and Health Research Alliance (via Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria and Cape Town, South Africa)
    • A site still under construction: "SAHARA is an alliance of partners established to conduct, support and use social sciences research to prevent further spread of HIV and mitigate the impact of its devastation on South Africa, the SADC region and sub-Saharan Africa."
    • SAHARA: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS Research Alliance. (Online) -- Cape Town, South Africa: via Human Sciences Research Council, 2004- Abstracts and excerpts only.
    • Publications (downloadable)
    
    
  • South Africa. Department of Health: Beyond Awareness Campaign: Tools for AIDS Action (Pretoria)
    • "...Promoting key HIV/AIDS messages is an important part of any national campaign. The challenge posed by the framework of the Beyond Awareness Campaign is to develop a campaign that does more than simply raise awareness. Although the Campaign does include awareness raising activities, its focus is to provide and promote access to communications tools and resources that can be used in support of prevention, care and support activities and initiatives at local level."
    • See also: Treatment Action Campaign below.
    
    
  • TAC: Treatment Action Campaign (Nonkqubela, Cape Town, South Africa)
    This website contains information on current awareness and health campaigns, HIV/AIDS news for South African and the region, documents, and related links. "The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) was launched on 10 December 1998, International Human Rights Day. Its main objective is to campaign for greater access to treatment for all South Africans, by raising public awareness and understanding about issues surrounding the availability, affordability and use of HIV treatments."
    
    
  • Uganda AIDS Commission and the National AIDS Documentation & Information Center (NADIC) (Kampala)
    General information about the commission and the center, its programs, research updates, news, and related links. "The Uganda AIDS Commission (UAC) was established by Statute of Parliament in 1992 and placed under the Office of the President to coordinate the multi-sectoral efforts."
    
    
  • UNAIDS: Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (Co-sponsored by WHO, UNICEF, UNDP, UNFPA, UNESCO, & The World Bank)
    • UNAIDS Home Page
      
      
    • Search for reports on HIV/AIDS
      
      
    • 2007 AIDS Epidemic Update (November 2007) (Global)
      
      
    • AIDS epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa -or- Middle East and North Africa (2007--)
      Summary and links to full-length reports.
      
      
    • 2006 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic = Rapport sur l'épidémie mondiale de SIDA.
      PDF format
      
      
    • AIDS in Africa: Three Scenarios to 2025. (January 2006) -- Geneva, Switzerland: UNAIDS, 2006. PDF format
      
      
    • Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS: 'Global Crisis -- Global Action", June 27, 2001
      See UN Special Session on AIDS, June 25-27, 2001 above.
    
    
  • United Nations Development Programme on HIV/AIDS (New York)
    • Regional Report on HIV/AIDS 2004: Generating action: UNDP's response to HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa: The answer lies within. -- New York: Bureau for Development Policy and Regional Bureau for Africa, United Nations Development Programme, 2004. PDF format
    
    
  • UNESCO Management of Social Transformations--MOST: "VIH/SIDA et entreprise en Afrique: une réponse socio-médicale à l'impact économique? L'exemple de la Côte d'Ivoire." (1997) par Laurent Aventin, Pierre Huard. MOST documents de travail ; no. 19.
    -- Paris, France: MOST Programme, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 1997.
    Voir aussi, la version anglaise.
    
    
  • UNESCO Webworld: Media & HIV/AIDS in East and Southern Africa: a resource book. Edited by S.T. Kwame Boafo, in collaboration with Carlos A. Arnaldo. -- Paris: UNESCO, 2000. PDF format
    
    
  • United States Agencies on HIV/AIDS in Africa
    • USAID on HIV/AIDS in Africa (Washington, DC)
      • USAID HIV/AIDS Country Profiles and Reports for Sub-Saharan Africa
        
        
      • SARA: Support for Analysis and Research in Africa
        -- SARA Home Page
        -- Multisectoral responses to HIV/AIDS: a compendium of promising practices from Africa. (April 2003) -- Washington, DC: USAID-PVO Steering Committee on Multisectoral Approaches to HIV/AIDS, 2003. PDF format.
        -- "HIV/AIDS, A humanitarian and development crisis: addressing the challenges for PVOs & NGOs in Africa." Conference report, October 16-17, 2002. -- Washington, DC: SARA, 2002. PDF format.
      
      
    • US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for HIV/STD and TB Prevention: Global AIDS Program -- Country Profiles (Atlanta, Georgia)
      Very basic information is provided for a select number of African countries. Warning: As of March 22, 2004, the links to US government information on HIV/AIDS surveillance, prevention, and treatment operations in Africa are not working.
      
      
    
    
  • University of Natal, Durban: Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division. (South Africa)
    The HEARD was established in 1998 to undertake research and teaching concerned with health economics and HIV/AIDS. The website includes online publications: workshop reports, newsletters, other reports, etc.
    
    
  • University of Pretoria: Centre for the Study of AIDS (South Africa)
    The website includes downloadable research reports and news from the Centre, UN agencies, and news agencies. "[Established in 1999] the Centre operates ...to plan for, and cope with, the impact that HIV/AIDS is likely to have on the institution and the tertiary sector as a whole."
    
    
  • West African Rice Development Association: Systemwide Initiative on HIV/AIDS and Agriculture (SWIHA) (Centre du riz pour l'Afrique, WARDA/ADRAO, Bouaké, Côte d'Ivoire) -- Reports up through 2003.
    
    
  • The World Bank on HIV/AIDS in Africa (Washington, DC)
    
    
  • World Health Organization, Regional Office for Africa: "AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria" Division (Brazzaville, Republic of Congo)
    
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  • Africa Action: Africa's Right to Health Campaign (Washington, DC)
    An advocacy and political campaign for Africa.
    
    
  • African Human Genome Education Institute (South Africa)
    The website features information and news from the 2004 Cairo Conference on "Genomics & Society: The Future Health of Africa" as well as the 2005 Nairobi Conference and related information. Plus: The Journal of Genomics and African Society. (Online) in PDF format ; and, sample issues of the African scientist. (Online).
    
    
  • African Malaria Vaccine Testing Network - African Malaria Network (Arusha, Tanzania; via The Netherlands?)
    The website includes a newsletter, workshop reports, and contact information. "AMVTN is a non-profit network established in 1995...The overall objective is to provide a forum for scientists and policy makers involved in the planning, coordination, and execution of malaria vaccination trials in Africa."
    
    
  • African Medical and Research Foundation (Nairobi, Kenya)
    This site offers news and other information about AMREF programmes (including "Flying Doctor Service") -- with offices in 4 countries: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and South Africa. "AMREF is Africa's largest indigenous health charity, and for 44 years in partnership with local communities, governments and donors, has worked to research and alleviate Africa's health problems."
    
    
  • African Population & Health Research Center, Inc. (Nairobi, Kenya)
    This website includes downloadable publications--newsletter, research reports, working papers, etc. "The Center was established in 1995 as a Population Policy Research Fellowship program of the Population Council, with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation. In 2001, it became an autonomous institution with headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya."
    -- APHRC newsletter
    -- APHRC research reports
    -- APHRC working papers
    
    
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science -- Online Publications on Health in Africa (Washington, DC)
    • "Malaria in Africa: Emerging Prevention and Control Strategies": Report from a symposium held at the 2001 AAAS Annual Meeting, February 17, 2001, San Francisco, California
    
    
  • Association of Nigerian Physicians in the Americas
    This site offers general information about ANPA, its annual conferences, and related events and activities.
    
    
  • The Carter Center: Health Programs (Atlanta, Georgia)
    Includes reports on Africa relating to agriculture (in Ethiopia), guinea worm eradication, the fight against river blindness, mental health, etc. See also, The Carter Center Home Page.
    
    
  • Centre for African Family Studies = Centre d'Etudes de la Famille Africaine (Nairobi, Kenya; Lomé, Togo)
    • The website offers information -- in English or in French -- about activities, training, and CAFS publications....such as conference reports, news, and annual reports. "CAFS was founded by the International Planned Parenthood Federation - Africa Region (IPPF-AR) and has been serving Africa since 1975. It is now a fully autonomous international non-governmental organisation..."
    • CAFS News. (Online). -- Nairobi, Kenya: CAFS, 2000-
    • A situation analysis of NGO governance and leadership in eastern, southern, central and western Africa. (Nov 2001) Implementing ICPD in Sub-Saharan Africa. PDF format. -- Nairobi, Kenya, CAFS, 2001.
    
    
  • CEPED--Centre Population et développement (Paris, France)
    • << Créé en 1988, le CEPED consacre, depuis l’automne 2002, ses activités à stimuler la collaboration scientifique entre des équipes de recherche du Nord et du Sud dans le domaine de la population et du développement...conjointement soutenu par l’Institut National d’Etudes Démographiques (INED), l’Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) et les laboratoires de démographie de trois universités de Paris I, Paris V, Paris X. Il est soutenu par le Ministère des Affaires étrangères.>>
    • Publications en ligne du CEPED Remarque: il y a beaucoup de titres et même de livres entiers en texte intégral sur l'Afrique.
    • Catalogues en ligne des documents consultables au centres de documentation des partenaires du réseau à Paris (CEPED), à Yaoundé (POPCAM), à Lomé (URD), à Abidjan (ENSEA), et à Ouagadougou (UERD) ;
      voir aussi: IFORD à Yaoundé.
    • L'avortement en Afrique: une revue de la littérature des années 1990 à nos jours = Abortion in Africa. Par Agnès Guillaume, avec la collaboration de William Molmy. -- Paris: CEPED, 2004. La version Internet.
      << Une base de données bibliographique contenant environ 600 références, interrogeables à partir de mots-clés...>>
    
    
  • Demographic & Health Surveys (DHS) (Macro International, Calverton, MD)
    Search especially under "Obtaining Data" for reports on individual countries or the Sub Saharan Africa region.
    
    
  • Réseau Sénégalais "Droit, Ethique, Santé" (via Refer; Dakar, Sénégal)
    • "[Le Réseau] a été créé pour promouvoir le droit et l'éthique dans le domaine de la santé. Il s'inscrit dans le contexte du développement du réseau 'Droit de la Santé', créé en juillet 2003 par l'Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF)..."
    • Publications et documents en ligne
    • Ressources documentaires
    • Sites utiles sur le Droit de la santé et l'éthique
    • Premières Journées de Bioéthique de Dakar pour l'Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre, du 11 au 13 juillet 2005
      L'introduction sur la thèmatique et le programme (en formats WORD et PDF).
      
      
    
    
  • Equity in Health in Southern Africa (Equinet - The Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa; Harare, Zimbabwe)
    • 'In March 1997, a Southern African meeting on Equity in Health was held in Kasane, Botswana. This meeting, hosted by the National Institute of Development Research and Documentation (Botswana) and the Dag Hammarskjold Foundation (Sweden) gathered representatives of government, non government and academic institutions involved in health. The meeting confirmed the regional commitment towards equity in health as a policy goal and an agenda for action.'
    • Equinet newsletter
    • Equinet Policy reports (downloadable in PDF)
    • Annotated Bibliography: Literature on Equity in Health in Southern Africa (downloadable in PDF)
    • Equinet publications, 1997-- (downloadable in PDF)
    
    
  • The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria -- Country Projects (Geneva, Switzerland)
    The website includes information about grant projects and reports. "[The Fund]...was created to dramatically increase resources to fight three of the world's most devastating diseases, and to direct those resources to areas of greatest need. As a partnership between governments, civil society, the private sector and affected communities..."
    
    
  • Harvard University Center for Population and Development (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
    "[Founded in 1964]...The Center’s research activities are currently focused on three areas. First is the issue of access to medicines in the developing world, which has advanced onto the international policy agenda around anti-AIDS medications. A second area is population policies and reproductive health, with particular attention to the roles of gender and politics. The third area is the neglected health problems of the global poor, such as the impact of road traffic injuries on the poor in developing countries."
    See especially: HCPDS Working Papers, 1990 to present.
    
    
  • Health Systems Trust (Durban, South Africa)
    • This website offers current health news, downloadable reports, and links to a wide variety of health information for South Africa and the southern Africa region. "Health Systems Trust is a dynamic independent non-government organisation established in 1992 to support the transformation of the South African health system."
    • South African health review. (Online). -- Durban, South Africa: Health Systems Trust, 1995-
      An annual review of health policy developments in South Africa: the most recent issue and back issues -- all downloadable in HTML or PDF formats; plus order information. See also, the HST Home Page.
    • See also: University of Natal--Durban and University of Pretoria below.
    
    
  • International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) (Washington, DC)
    • "Through its policy analyses, which is of broad relevance to the developing world, IFPRI directly supports developing-country policymakers, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and civil society in their efforts to help the poor."
    • IFPRI Home Page (General)
    • IFPRI Publications -- Full List
    • Search the IFPRI online bibliographic database
      
      Selected reports on Africa in PDF format, with order information:
      -- "Managing resources in erratic environments...Ethiopia, Niger, and Burkina Faso," by Nancy McCarthy ...[et al.] (2004). Research report ; 135.
      -- "Human capital, household welfare, and children's schooling in Mozambique," by Sudhanshu Handa ...[et al.] (2004). Research report ; 134.
      -- "Strategies for sustainable land management and poverty reduction in Uganda," by Ephraim Nkonya ...[et al.] (2004). Research report ; 133.
      -- "Rebuilding after war: micro-level determinants of poverty reduction in Mozambique," by Kenneth R. Simler ...[et al.] (2003). Research report ; 132.
      -- "Macroeconomic policy reforms and agriculture...Zimbabwe," by Romeo M. Bautista ...[et al.] (2002). Research report ; 128.
      -- "Market institutions, transaction costs, and social capital in the Ethiopian grain market," by Eleni Z. Gabre-Madhin (2001). Research report ; 124.
      -- "The Egyptian food subsidy system...options for reform," by Akhter U. Ahmed ...[et al.] (2001). Research report ; 119.
      -- "Seasonal undernutrition in rural Ethiopia...functional significance," by Anna Ferro-Luzzi ...[et al.] (2001). Research report ; 118.
      -- "Structural adjustment and intersectoral shifts in Tanzania...equilibirum analysis," by Peter Wobst (2001). Research report ; 117.
      -- "Access to credit and its impact on welfare in Malawi," by Aliou Diagne, Manfred Zeller (2001). Research report ; 116.
      -- "Wheat policy reform in Egypt...future reforms," by Mylène Kherallah ...[et al.] (2000). Research report ; 115.
      -- "Urban livelihoods and food and nutrition security in Greater Accra, Ghana," by Daniel Maxwell ...[et al.] (2000). Research report ; 112.
      -- "Agricultural growth linkages in Sub-Saharan Africa," by Christopher L. Delgado ...[et al.] (1998) Research report ; 107.
    
    
  • International Medical Corps Online (Los Angeles, California)
    • "International Medical Corps (IMC) is a nonprofit, humanitarian, relief organization established in 1984 by volunteer United States physicians and nurses. In war-torn and impoverished regions worldwide, IMC saves lives and relieves suffering while providing the critical knowledge and skills to help people help themselves and foster self-reliance." This site provides general information on IMC activities, means of support, and employment opportunities.
    • Home Page
    • IMC Programs: Angola | Burundi | Somalia | Sudan
    
    
  • International Union for the Scientific Study of Population = Union Internationale pour l'Etude Scientifique de la Population (Paris, France)
    << L'Union internationale pour l'étude scientifique de la population (UIESP) vise à promouvoir et à encourager les recherches en démographie et sur des sujets ayant trait à la population. Fondée en 1928 et reconstituée en 1947, l'UIESP est une association scientifique internationale composée de près de 2000 membres individuels intéressés par les questions de population. Plus d\'un tiers de nos membres sont originaires de pays en développement.>> Voir surtout: Publications -et- Conférences.
    
    
  • Mapping Malaria Risk in Africa = Atlas du Risque de la Malaria [du Paludisme] en Afrique (South Africa)
    MARA/ARMA is an international effort in support of the compilation, dissemination, and advance of malaria research in Africa. General information about conferences and workshops; plus: 1st technical report and maps on malaria distribution and other demographic data.
    
    
  • Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF):
    • MSF International Home Page
    • Niger -- Juillet 2005
      Un recueil des rapports du terrain au Niger et sur la crise alimentaire.
    • MSF Projects in Africa
    
    
  • Medical Research Council of South Africa (Tygerberg, South Africa)
    See also: MRC publications and press releases.
    
    
  • Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (Stockholm, Sweden)
    • The website --in English or in French-- features news and information about conferences; plus related links. 'Founded in the mid-1990s, MIM is an alliance of organizations and individuals who are seeking to maximize the impact of scientific research against malaria in Africa, through promoting capacity building and facilitating global collaboration and coordination.'
    • MIM newsletters (1998 to present), reports, and conference information
    
    
  • Policy Project in Africa (Futures Group, Washington, DC)
    This website includes summaries of activities in about 1 dozen African countries, with downloadable reports on policy issues in family planning, HIV/AIDS, and maternal health.
    In addition to individual country project activities, see also:
    -- East and Southern Africa
    -- West Africa Regional Program
    
    
  • RAND Corporation -- Africa (Washington, DC)
    • RAND Issue Paper: "Population growth in Egypt: a continuing policy challenge" (2000) By Mona Khalifa, Julie DaVanzo, David M. Adamson. Population matters. (RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy)
    • RAND Research Brief: "Contraception and fertility in Zimbabwe" (1997) (RAND Labor and Population Program, Yale University Center for International Studies; and RAND, Washington, DC)
    
    
  • SOMA-Net: Social Science and Medicine Africa Network (Nairobi, Kenya)
    General information about SOMA-Net, conferences and other activities since 1995, and contact information on council members in different African countries. "To establish long-term holistic and sustainable solutions to health in Africa; by encouraging, facilitating and supporting research..."
    
    
  • Union Pour l'Etude de la Population Africaine = Union for African Population Studies (Dakar, Sénégal)
    << L'UEPA est une organisation scientifique, panafricaine, à but non lucratif, a été créée à l'initiative de la CEA et à l'issue de la Troisième conférence commune des planificateurs, statisticiens et démographes africains qui a eu lieu à Addis Abéba en mars 1984. >> Le site offre les renseignements de base sur l'organisation, ses activités, les tables de matières de la revue Etude de la Population Africaine. (Yaoundé, Cameroun) ; le UAPS newsletter. (Online) ; et les rapports de recherche.
    
    
  • United Nations Economic Commission for Africa: Scoring African leadership for better health. (2004). -- Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: ECA, 2004. PDF format
    • See also: United Nations Economic Commission for Africa: "An Assessment of African Experiences"--1999 Follow-up to the Dakar/Ngor Declaration at the 1994 "International Conference on Population & Development"; the annual "Economic Report for Africa" ; and, the UNECA's Food Security and Sustainable Development Division (FSSD) reports on population.
    
    
  • UNFPA: United Nations Population Fund (New York)
    • UNFPA assists in gathering data on population and health as well as promoting development worldwide. The web site includes statistical data for each country on population, socio-economic development, and reproductive health; and, special reports.
    • UNFPA Home Page
    • State of the World Population Annual Report
    • UNFPA on Sub-Saharan Africa -and- Middle East and North Africa ("Arab States")
      Country profiles and reports from UNFPA offices worldwide.
    
    
  • United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on Health in Africa:
    • SARA: Support for Analysis and Research in Africa
      "The SARA project supports the work of USAID's Bureau for Africa, Office of Sustainable Development (AFR/SD) to improve policies and programs in health and basic education."
      -- SARA Home Page
      -- Online full-text publications on child survival, basic education, family planning and other topics -- Note: Some documents are also available in French.
    
    
  • WaterAid: a development charity (UK)
    • Home Page
    • Tanzania--"WAMMA: empowerment in practice," by Julie Jarman and Catherine Johnson PDF file
      "[This report] assesses the development of a collaborative partnership between the Tanzanian government and WaterAid. Implications for policy emerge which are relevant for both the water and sanitation sector, and the wider development community."
    
    
  • The World Bank on Health, Nutrition & Population (Washington, DC)
    • HNP Home Page
    • Search for country data
    • Search for publications on individual countries.
    
    
  • World Health Organization on Africa (WHO) (Geneva, Switzerland)
    • Home Page
    • WHO Publications--Bookshop
      
      
    • WHO Countries or Members = Pays ou Membres de l'OMS
      
      
    • WHO Regional Office for Africa--WHO/AFRO (Brazzaville, Republic of Congo; via WHO, Geneva)
      
      
    • WHO Regional Office for Africa: AFRO Statistics: regional and country data
      
      
    • WHO Regional Office for Africa: AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: Current and recent news, reports, statistical summaries, etc.
      
      
    • World health report 2007--A safer future: global public health security in the 21st century = Un avenir plus sûr: la sécurité sanitaire mondiale au XXIe siècle. -- Geneva, Switzerland: WHO, 2007.
      
      
    • World health report 2006: working together for health = Rapport sur la santé dans le monde 2006: travailler ensemble pour la santé. -- Geneva, Switzerland: WHO, 2006.
      
      
    • World health report 2005: make every mother and child count = Rapport sur la santé dans le monde 2005. -- Geneva, Switzerland: WHO, 2005.
      
      
    • World health report 2004: changing history = Rapport sur la santé dans le monde 2004: changer le cours de l'histoire. -- Geneva, Switzerland: WHO, 2004.
      -- Country profiles
      -- 1995-2003 reports
      
      
    • WHOLIS -- World Health Organization Library Database
      "WHOLIS indexes all WHO publications from 1948 onwards and articles from WHO-produced journals and technical documents from 1985 to the present [***including selected online full text documents]."
      
      
    • WHO Library: African Index Medicus (English)
      A newly revised, web-based international index to publications on health in Africa; with Quick and Advanced Search options.
      
      
    • WHO -- Health Action in Crises
      WHO documents on current health situations and assistance around the world....including Angola, Congo Rep., D.R.C., Eritrea/Ethiopia, Great Lakes, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Somalia, and Sudan.
      
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